Paul Goble: Putinism a cult with the pluses and minuses thereof
Russia's President Vladimir Putin reviews guards of honour troop during a welcoming ceremony in front of the anti-submarine ship \"Vice-Admiral Kulakov\" in Novorossiysk on Sept. 23.
Putinism is "a pseudo-religious and quasi-political cult" which has arisen over the course of the last year and which has "consolidated society around Putin," including many who were at the level of political ideas opposed to the Kremlin leader, according to Fedor Krasheninnikov.
